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Would you ever go away with your - a drunk in a pub told me so it must be true - arseholery? 7 or 8 U16 players in an Offaly Minor squad would be about par for the course.

And how will the U16s get on without them? The same as they do every year. Other players will get called into the squad ...

Good to see Coláiste Naomh Cormac into the All-Ireland Final. A great achievement for a small school. All the moreso with two of their better players attending school elsewhere.

With Leinster championship games in quick succession, momentum will mean everything. Not just results, but performance and injuries/absentees. As such, its impossible to know at this stage what the mood will be heading into the Kildare game.

The 'up side' is that in three to four year's time, Offaly's now 21 year olds will have much more intercounty experience than lads the same age from other counties.

Remember it took Offaly's 1986 Minors eight years to win a Senior All-Ireland.

If Offaly stay in the Leinster championship, their ...

Just on this point. Brecon, as well as several others, is just out of U20. Those lads aren't going to be fully developed for a few years yet. Yes, they'll be on programmes, but there's a natural development too. And all the programmes and proteins in the world aren't going to give a 22 year old the ...

Looks like the third heaviest NFL defeat.

There was that 30 point hammering from Armagh. That was in 2017. And a 25 point beating from Kerry in Listowel in 1937.

pigeon house biffo wrote: ↑Sat Feb 21, 2026 8:22 pm
Echoes of the 30 point trimming offaly got from Armagh a few years back in the league

How do you improve it? Smart answer is to pick a team of lads who are over 25.

As it is, I make it today's team has seven who would be U21 this year if such a grade existed, and another three are a year older. I'd wager there isn't a team in the whole league with an age profile like that.

But as ...

Getting any match played on grass over the next two to three weeks will be a miracle.

Nothing too wrong with that Offaly team. Eleven of them graduating from the underage setups of recent years, and are no strangers to high standards and performing under pressure. Many are hurling Fitzgibbon too. Taking the next logical step into Senior intercounty hurling.

Kilkenny with two 2026 ...

Couple of things.

I expected more from that Offaly team. Good on paper, finished it out well against South Dublin last day out.

I managed to see the second and third quarters on the stream. That was a seriously good Mullingar team. Great touch, totally dominated around the middle, had forwards too ...

The goings on at a club AGM have no place in a match report.
The people who ran to the media with stories would want to take a good look at themselves too.

Corrigan is some reporter for going off script on a match report and raving about off the field issues or other topics that have noting to do ...

A great achievement for the young man. Can only wish him the very best with this opportunity.

Cillian Bourke going AFL with Melbourne based side Essendon.
Can't turn down a chance like that. He has developed unbelievably well the past few years and the nicest lad you'd meet aswell hopefully it ...

Go Raibh maith agat. All the best to yereselves. Safe travels.

Drumcullen man wrote: ↑Sat Nov 08, 2025 3:57 pm Well done to lusmagh. Best of luck to our lads and k/k tomorrow

Five tough matches, but shur you wouldn't have it any other way.

A rough and ready list of the top scorers from play. The tabs didn't carry onto the post, sorry, hope you can follow them.
26 Cían Johnson 3-17
24 Aaron Kellaghan 6-6
19 Harry Plunkett 1-16
15 Luke Plunkett 2-9
15 Aaron Murphy 3-6
14 Rúairí McNamee 2-8
14 Mike Fox 1-11
13 Cormac Egan 3-4
13 Niall ...